Lou Grant HATED spunk! 
Apparently, there has never been a Mary Tyler Moore porn parody, according to this article, although the interviewee really wants to do one. in any case, if the movie were made, it would include Mary Richards, Lou Grant, and spunk.
A statue of MTM tossing her hat in the air, from the show’s original opening sequence, stands on the corner of 7th and Nicollet in downtown Minneapolis. It has a superficial resemblance to the one of Elizabeth Montgomery in a witch costume, riding a broom, like in the opening graphic to “Bewitched”, that stands in Salem, Mass.
In August 2005, Moore guest-starred as Christine St. George, a high-strung host of a fictional TV show on three episodes of Fox sitcom That '70s Show. In one scene when Jackie asked her what she thought of her new beret, St. George ripped it off her head, threw it in the air a la Mary, and when it his the floor stomped on it .
St. George, Utah, was named after George Smith (no relation to Joseph), a rotund member of the Mormon Quorum of the Twelve and like all members of the religion a Latter Day Saint (hence the saint in St. George).
Humorist Stan Freberg and voice actor Daws Butler collaborated on St. George and the Dragonet, a parody retelling of the dragon-slaying legend in the style of the police show Dragnet. Dragnet creator Jack Webb liked Freberg, and allowed him to use not only the show’s theme, but also the show’s orchestra and composer/conductor Walter Schumann. The record went to number one in 1953.
Jack Webb played a forensic scientist in the film He Walked by Night. While playing the role, he became friendly with Sgt. Marty Wynn, who was technical advisor on the film. Webb and Wynn decided to work on creating a “realistic” cop show, which premiered on the radio as Dragnet. It made the jump to TV in the 1950s and we revived in the 60s, the 80s, and the 00s.
According to Wikipedia, George Smith was the cousin of Joseph Smith Jr.
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Spin and Marty was aired as part of ABC’s Mickey Mouse Club show of the mid-1950s produced by Walt Disney. Marty was some rich punk kid who summered at the Triple R Ranch camp who eventually embraced the whole idea. Annette Funicello and Darlene Gillespie both starred in later versions of the series.
Lyricist Haven Gillespie never really wanted to write a Christmas song, but the one he penned in 1934 became his most well-known work – Santa Claus is Coming to Town.
In his short story “Town and Country,” humorist David Sedaris tells of being seated next to a well-dressed, wealthy older couple on a flight. Much to his surprise, they turn out to have very foul mouths. Sedaris writes, “It was if someone had taken the grandparents from a Ralph Lauren ad and forced them to appear in a David Mamet play.”
Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Persky. After her mother divorced, she took the last name of Bacall. She originally acted under the name of Betty Bacall, but was given the name “Lauren Bacall” by Howard Hawks. Bacall usually prefers to be called “Betty.”
The Betty is the starship of a ragamuffin crew which makes a top-secret delivery to a United Systems Military research facility in the movie Alien Resurrection. Winona Ryder and Ron Perlman play two of the crew.
Flintstones Vitamins included shapes of every major character from the TV series, including Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm, Dino, the Great Gazoo and even the foot-powered car, but not Betty Rubble, until a grassroots campaign righted the injustice by Miles Laboratories in 1988.
The name of the alien voiced by Harvey Korman in The Flintstones comes from a 1909 song called King of the Bungaloos. One line goes: “I just received a cable 'spatch from my ancestral home. It tells me I’m the great Gazoo, successor to the throne.”
President Theodore Roosevelt of New York’s hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft of Ohio, was inaugurated for his sole term in office on March 4, 1909. The two later had a political and personal falling-out and ran against each other in 1912, splitting the Republican vote and giving the White House to Democrat Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey.
Woodrow Wilson is the only Ph.D to ever become President. He earned a doctorate in Political Science from Johns Hopkins.
I’m pretty sure that one’s been used.
Johns Hopkins University was named for its benefactor and first president, a wealthy abolitionist who supported Lincoln during the Civil War.
Anthony Hopkins was nominated for Worst Actor in the film A Change of Seasons at the very first Razzie Awards in 1980.
The first non-Beatles single to be commercially released on the Apple Records label was “Those Were the Days” by Mary Hopkin.
Of the Beatles’s eight wives, Olivia Harrison is the only one not to ever have been married to a non-Beatle.